Fiction

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s…

Last year’s Hugo Awards ceremony certainly had its issues, but getting nominated for a Hugo Award is still a big…

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s…

They’ve put on their fineries, hung out the nicest of the corpses. Even the skeletal birds had shown up for a night…

A faithful hound sits behind a shield, gauntlets, and a sword—a pile of battle-ready belongings, but no knight to…

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current…

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current…

It’s Friday, it’s been an emotional week to say the least, and it’s time for another Concept Art Writing Prompt. We…

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current…

And why, pray tell, is that unfriendly-looking creature the only way you have of escaping? Also...what or who are…

“For want of a nail the shoe was lost.” We often think about where our lives would be if certain things had turned…

While there aren’t enough particles in the vacuum of space to create a proper medium through which sound can travel,…

On the clearest nights, a sudden fog would envelop the streets, heralding the unearthly screech of their whistles…

The Cat Council only convened in the darkest of times, for they were catkind, and it was their duty to act. But will…

I hear the little ski plane sliding down outside and I put on all my shirts and three pairs of pants to shield…

Warning: This fiction story contains descriptions of self-harm.

Five weeks before Theresa Greenwood vanished, the 64-year-old retiree invited me into her home, let me scratch her…